The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.  There must be no half-measures.
-Adolf Hitler

In the higher ranges of Secret Service work, the actual facts in many cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama.  Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot ,ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true.  The Chief and the High Officers of the Secret Service reveled in these subterranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with cold and silent passion.
-Winston Churchill